This section deals with the elected rather than the admistrative council.
The council and it's meetings are often shrouded in a general lack of easily accessable information deep in the councils own website (if at all).
As such this section deals with meetings, outcomes and time tables. It could also have advice on meetings that the public can attend and related information.
This section of the book I have added so that we can document information pertaining to each counciller such as party affiliation, ward, contact inofrmation and other details (personal websites, email, surgery times etc).
Councillers are invited to add thier own information if they are able. Just grab an account and join on in.
Click on the council members name and you will be taken to the members overview page. This will probably contain an address and a few phone numbers.
There is a link that says "Add Child Page" once you have clicked this you will be taken to a form for you to write your review. This is much the same as blogging or posting a foum message or comment.
you will be able to preview your review and submit it when happy. It will appear as a link under the overview page and other members of this site will be able to post comments.
Give it a go - it's very easy.
Feel compleatly free to link to these sub pages when talking about these councillers.
Feel free when adding pages to link out to relivant resources too.
You can add extra information by adding a comment that the page creator can then add into his or her write up or you can file a child page with the content you wish to add.
Adding sub pages should generally be reserved for stories, opinion and full articles where as comment might be better for smaller "corrections".
The so called members portal is the section of the council website that took the longest to be of much use in relacing a fully functional list of members.
It is aparently a "pilot program" which begs the question where is the current working program?
If a group commits to a new program and removes the old one in favour of the new they are commited to it and can no longer afford to call it pilot, beta or other words indicating it as a test.
The following quote comes from this page
The Member Portal is a pilot programme and it is clear that some Members find it a useful aid to communicating with their constituents. Others feel less ethusiastic towards it.
--Paul Moore
I'd say that not only is it not ready to replace the original information page but that the members themselves are not ready for it to do so either. Which begs another question: Who the hell did they employ to make this waste of cache? Where is the analysis report on the subject that was issued prior to the changes? If one was created at all.
Users, memebrs or passers by who have access to this information may wish to more and I'd be greatfull if you would.
Conservative
This council member not only looks stupid in my personal opinion but also sounds really lame when he mutters about "Cafe Society" without knowing the history of the phrase.
I know this entry will need to become more nutral in view point (sub pages are where comment should go) and I promise that as a good all round coverage is added I will revise this section.
Or should I threaten to revise and say nice things if coverage is not added?
17 Crow Hill
Broadstairs
CT10 1HN
01843 602533 (or fax 01843 224348)
07976 283593
cllr-sandy.ezekiel@thanet.gov.uk
Labour
23 The Paddocks
Broadstairs
CT10 3AJ
01843 602594
poole@btinternet.com
Conservative
The Poop
35 Domneva Road
Westgate
CT8 8PE
01843 836311
I could not just post this page without first sniggering like a school boy at the house name. I wonder what the real story behind that one is.
Ward: Thanet Villages
Party: none / independent
32 High Street
Minster
Ramsgate
CT12 4BU
01843 821919
I confess that at this time you now have all I know.
54 Masons Rise
Broadstairs
CT10 1AZ
0787 5436716
barbara.cook1@tesco.net
Labour
29 Wilfred Road
Ramsgate
CT11 7RD
Phone: 01843 580057
Fax: 01843 580057
You can e-mail me at: barbara@bnicholson9.wanadoo.co.uk
Conservative
42 Northdown Road
Margate
CT9 2RW
0793 1131420
bowenfuller@hotmail.com
Conservative
76 Park Road
Birchington
CT7 0AD
01843 845553
07984 841360
brianandann@birchpark.fs.co.uk
Party: Conservative
Ward: Cliftonville East
121 Monkton Street
Monkton
Ramsgate
CT12 4JQ
01843 821112
Labour
26 Marlborough Road
Margate
CT9 5SU
01843 226182
07814 235245
Party: Conservative
Ward: Thanet Villages
Sea Tower
Spencer Road
Birchington
CT7 9EY
01843 842538 (Fax: 01843 845887)
cllr-charles.hibberd@thanet.gov.uk
Party: Conservative
Ward: Viking
3 Foreland Heights
Broadstairs
CT10 3FU
01843 601117
Labour
28 Clarence Avenue
Cliftonville
Margate
CT9 3DP
01843 298770
Councillor for Thanet District Council.
Mr Green is also a fellow web user and maintains a web blog at http://eastclifframsgate.blogspot.com/ which was closed down suddenly and without clear reason for quite some time. It is suspected that other councillers tried to silence him.
His council pages are one of the few that have anything to see. It seems labour are the only ones with the skill to fill out the pages.
Cllr Green activly invites reports of broken street furniture, pot holes and other invironmental issues. While I may be bias towards him as he is a blogger too he is the only "true Labour" I know of.
As such I leave it to other members to add more nutral review.
Councillor David Green
27 La Belle Alliance Square
Ramsgate
01843 591495
dgreen.home@btinternet.com
David Green has a surgery once a month on the first saturday between 1000 and 1200 at: ECHO community shop, Plains of Waterloo, Ramsgate.
Labour
30A Newington Road
Ramsgate
Kent
CT12 6EE
01843 593447
07793 381194
havingfun@tesco.net
I'm not sure if I should be terrified or impressed by the email address. Good advert for Tesco I guess.
Party: Conservative
Ward: Westbrook
18 Laleham Road
Cliftonville
Margate
CT9 3QA
01843 293523
Labour Party
20 St Peters Road
Margate
CT9 1TF
01843 220174
Labour
27 La Belle Alliance Square
Ramsgate
CT11 8HZ
01843 591495
Ward: Dane Valley (apaprently).
ian.gregory@ekht.nhs.uk
11 Albion Road
St Peters
Broadstairs
Kent
CT10 2UP
I don't feel able to say anything nice so I am going to say nothing at all.
Party: Conservative
Ward: Westgate-on-Sea
20 Barnes Avenue
Westbrook
Margate
CT9 5EQ
01843 299265
cllr-ingrid.spencer@thanet.gov.uk
ingrid.spencer@talk21.com
Labour Ward Councillor representing the residents of Margate Central
Cllr Iris Johnston is possibly the most well known councillor possibly because she enjoies being in the news (and why not) for the support of different causes.
Iris Johnston is another one of the tiny club that have bothered to update or add to thier council provided web page.
You can write to Iris Johnston at:
15 Hatfeild Road
Margate
Kent
CT9 5BL
You can phone Iris Johnston on 01843 299207 and you might get an answer.
iris.johnston@btinternet.com
Iris Johnston's surgeries are held at 44 Northdown Road in Cliftonville the venue can be contacted on 01843 232147.
All this I optained from Ms Johnston's main page. An example of good design.
Iris Johnston is also a member of "Finance, Best Value and Performance Review Panel" as is the other council memebr that has bothered to do anything with this expensive (or very cheap) new council web site.
Independent District Councillor for Birchington South.
Jack Cohen is one of the few members that have taken the time to fill out thier TDC website profile page. Read it here.
Acording to his pages at the TDC website he is a member of "Finance, Best Value and Performance Review Panel"
jackbernard.cohen@virgin.net
2 Leslie Road
Birchington
CT7 9HG
01843 847421 (or Fax 01843 847421)
Party: Conservative
Ward: St Peter
The Old Farmhouse
13 Church Street
St Peters
Broadstairs
CT10 2TT
01843 602834
Party: Conservative
Ward: Viking
5 Merrivale Heights
Broadstairs
CT10 1RG
01843 868652
jkirkpatrick@onetel.net
Party: Conservative
Ward: Nethercourt
38 Goodwin Road
Ramsgate
CT11 0JJ
01843 594857
Cllr-Jill.Kirby@thanet.gov.uk
14 Central Road
Ramsgate
CT11 7SE
07957 151787
Conservative
1 Carlton Avenue
Ramsgate
CT11 9BP
01843 597638
johnfullarton@hotmail.com
Party: Conservative
Ward: Cliffsend & Pegwell
38 Goodwin Road
Ramsgate
CT11 0JJ
01843 594857
cllr-john.kirby@thanet.gov.uk
Labour
8 Irvine Drive
Margate
CT9 3XA
01843 228165
Labour
9 Duncan Road
Ramsgate
CT11 9SU
01843 592302
kaydark@hotmail.com
Party: Conservative
Ward: Central Harbour
Golden Point Farm
115 Monkton Street
Monkton
CT12 4JQ
01843 822368 (Fax: 01843 822368)
07850 233359
agreg115@aol.com
Labour
Flat 1
36 York Street
Broadstairs
CT10 1PB
01843 865474
higgsl@parliament.uk
Now that domain name gave me pause for thought. If this member can arrange for anofficial email address why not the others? Perhaps this site should offer all councillers an address.
Ward: Cliftonville West
77 Dumpton Park Drive
Broadstairs
CT10 1RH
Phone: 01843 602490
llaldred@yahoo.co.uk
Party: Conservative
Ward: Birchington South
Walnut Tree Cottage
16A Grenham Road
Birchington
CT7 9JH
01843 841545
Party: Conservative
Ward: Cliftonville East
57 Cornwall Gardens
Cliftonville
Margate
CT9 2JE
01843 299484
cllr-martin.wise@thanet.gov.uk
Labour
23 Holbrook Drive
Ramsgate
CT12 6DY
01843 590119
cllr-mike.harrison@thanet.gov.uk
Party: Conservative
Ward: Thanet Villages
10 Earlsmead Crescent
Cliffsend
Ramsgate
CT12 5LQ
01843 595065
michael.roberts@thanet.gov.uk
michael.rob653@onetel.net
Party: Conservative
Ward: Westbrook
11 Westbrook Gardens
Margate
CT9 5DJ
01843 293733 (Fax: 01843 293733)
margatecarnivalgroup@btinternet.com
Labour.
No known mail address please help.
Works at Thanet College in the Dyslexia Support Service.
07766 452552
michellefenner@hotmail.com
35 Grafton Road
ST Peters
CT10 3DW
01843 861030
Labour
cllr-richard.nicholson@thanet.gov.uk
29 Wilfred Road
Ramsgate
CT11 7RD
01843 580057
Another member with an official email address. So they are available then.
Conservative
Getting very fed up with typing such little information about each of our secretive councillers I chose to web search this one.
All I found was this interesting missive.
Dear Councillor
I thought you would like to know that it is no longer possible to contact you directly by email via the TDC website. When one clicks on your name as it appears as a link to information about you one moves into a realm of the surreal where one is asked for passwords or to write your website for you. Rude messages like “Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource” come up.
This link takes you to the information about councillor Ezekiel’s information on the TDC website and is typical of all the other councillors web presence http://councillors.thanet.gov.uk/sites/sandyezekiel/default.aspx it looks appalling and shows both you and the council in a bad light...
michaelsbookshop.com
Contact info:
'Dunollie'
Second Avenue
Kingsgate
CT10 3LL
01843 869506
cllr-robert.bayford@thanet.gov.uk
bobbreggub@aol.com
Party: Conservative
Ward: Birchington North
10 Seaview Road
Birchington
CT7 9LB
01843 841956 (Fax: 01843 841956)
07795800329
cllr-roger.latchford@thanet.gov.uk
roger.latchford@btinternet.com
Ward: Dane Valley
6 Orchard Gardens
Westbrook
CT9 5JT
01843 832888
I do not feel I can say anything nice so I am asking others to contribute content.
Conservative
54 Norfolk Road
Cliftonville
CT9 2HZ
01843 230509
01843 230516
Ward: Dane Valley.
354 Northdown Road
Margate
CT9 3PH
08701 347682
I'm going to ask others to write this one up as this counciller has never replied to any communication to date and I'm likely to say "un nice things".
Thank you for understanding.
Party: Conservative
Ward: Garlinge
11 Westbrook Gardens
Margate
CT9 5DJ
01843 293733 (Fax: 01843 293733)
margatecarnivalgroup@btinternet.com
29 Glencoe Road
Margate
CT9 2SL
01843 228071
121 Sea Road
Westgate
CT8 8QE
07966 456403
simonday@clara.co.uk
I could find no further worthy information about this person on the web.
I appeal for members of this site to show me up by finding something.
Party: Labour
Ward: Eastcliff
24 Muir Road
Ramsgate
CT11 8AX
01843 594821
steve_ward@btinternet.com
Party: Liberal Democrat
Ward: Bradstowe
7 Dickens Road
Broadstairs
CT10 1DX
01843 600730
trevoremes@freenet.co.uk
Party: Conservative
Ward: Bradstowe
Bill Hayton
12 Cecilia Road
Ramsgate
Kent CT11 7DY
01843 591529 (Fax: 01843 584950)
bill.hayton@thanet.gov.uk
Party: Conservative
Ward: Viking
2 West Cliff Road
Broadstairs
CT10 1PU
01843 862107
Labour
Flat 2
Newington Court
152 Newington Road
Ramsgate
CT12 6PU
Surgeries are also believed to be held at this address.
01843 580534
Party: Conservative
Ward: St Peters
01843 861562
07890 649550
The council and it's members often use terms and make references that the rest of us find incomprohensible like the mutterings about "Cafe Society".
This section of our great book is here to address such coucnil speak along with it's use of made up words.
This is so regular people know what they are... um... talking about.
On this page I addressed on this site the issue of "Cafe Society" because in the "Isle of Thanet Gazette, Friday, September 29, 2006", Page 2, Council Sandy Ezekiel is quoted as saying "...it is one of our mainstays in the Conservitive group to promote cafe society."
I wondered without seriousness if this was some confusion of Conservatives Against a Federal Europe or a reference to a new form of aggression that relies on a gesticulation more usually associated with Roman cafe society.
However, I knew that this was just pointless sarcasm and that I had no idea. So I emailed a few poeple a few members of the council replied. But more on that further on.
The wikipdeia has this to say:
Café society was the collective description for the so-called "beautiful people" and "bright young things" who gathered in fashionable cafes and restaurants in Paris, London, Rome or New York, beginning in the late 1800s. Although members of café society were not necessarily members of The Establishment or other ruling class groups, they were people who attended each other's private dinners and balls, took holidays in exotic locations or at elegant resorts, and whose children tended to marry the children of other café society members.
In the United States, café society came to the fore with the end of Prohibition in December 1933 and the rise of photo journalism, to describe the set of people who tended to do their entertaining semi-publicly, in restaurants and night clubs and who would include among them movie stars and sports celebrities.
In the late 1950s the term "Jet Set" began to take the place of "café society", but "café society" may still be used informally in some countries to describe people who habitually visit coffeehouses and give their parties in restaurants rather than at home.
So unless we have some better information we could conlude that Cllr Ezekiel wants to promote a Jet-Set for thanet. A group of rich people with nothing better to do than take skiing holidays probablly paid for by expensive projects like the Turner Centre that can be used to suck up vast ammounts of tax payer money.
Interestingly there was also a nightclub that traded on the use of this name:
Café Society was also a New York City nightclub opened in 1938 in Greenwich Village by Barney Josephson to showcase African American talent and to be an American version of the political cabarets he had seen in Europe before the war. Josephson also intended the club to defy the pretensions of the rich; he chose the name to mock Clare Booth Luce and what she referred to as "café society", the habitués of more upscale nightclubs. Josephson not only trademarked the name, which had not been trademarked by the gossip columnist for the New York Journal American M, who wrote as the first "Cholly Knickerbocker". but advertised the club as "The Wrong Place for the Right People." Josephson opened a second branch on 58th Street, between Lexington and Park Avenue, in 1940.
--wikipdeia
But as the conservative websites are silent on this "mainstay" I was baffled untill Cllr David Green pointed me to this long winded PDF. "I think its about tables and chairs" he told me. It seems that Café Society means allowing the greasy spoons and other caf's to put thier tables and chairs on the street. However, as we shall shortly learn the working group (or whatever) for this has never met.
That's why the newspaper story of the counciller that resigned.
Too right too.
But all this puts me in mind of the fuss of getting the upper class decks and chairs sorted out on the sinking titanic. That is not to say that I think Thanet is a sinking ship but the similarities scare the crap out of me.
"Although I cannot answer for Cllr Ezekiel I believe he was referring to the 'cafe society' where people sit outside and eat." says Iris Johnston in her reply to me.
She continues in her explination and enlightens us greatly on this secret mainstay.
"The Council has promoted the idea of tables and chairs outside cafes as in warmer countries and a working party was to be set up to set out guidlines and charges. I have complained on several occasions that the group has yet to meet." (which we had established).
"There has been problems at the Parade in Margate where my advice to work with all food providers was not listened to since 2003. Cllr Ezekiel recently told me there was no need to have proper arrangements ...he was involved in a disasterous road closure episode recently where no one had a clue what was going on and I spent my weekend placating traders in my ward We have real disagreements between some traders on whose tables and chairs should be where and a nice idea is being spoiled by lack of proper procedures." (abridged).
Cllr Johnstone then continued to explain exactly what had happened in a way that I only wish the newspaper had done.
Councillor Cohen a former chairman of Planning was quite right to put his question at Full Council (Gazette story Rossetti Gardens Birchington) to Councillor Latchford. The Cabinet member for Tourism and Leisure is often the first port of call for someone wishing to use public open space. He can agree to its use or bring it to Cabinet. He should also advise that planning permission/advice must be sought with full public consultation. This didnt happen in Birchington and is only beginning to happen after pressure from me in Margate. Councillor Cohen has left the Conservative Group at TDC and sits alone and Cllr Latchford simmered throughout the meeting with anger. Cllr Kirby had to cover up their incompetence and an officer was blamed. No one knows who the officer is!
From this I can only conclude that this Café Society of Cllr Ezekiel is a strangly anarcho-communistic* by-pass of planning permision. I strangely as I would have expected something this far left of centre to be the soul domain of the labour party. It's that or Cllr Ezekiel has taken a bribe that no one is aware of.
*note: see also Libertarian Communism.
Anarchist communism stresses egalitarianism and the abolition of social hierarchy and class distinctions that arise from unequal wealth distribution, the abolition of capitalism and money, and the collective production and distribution of wealth by means of voluntary associations.
In anarchist communism, the state and property would no longer exist. Each individual and group would be free to contribute to production and to satisfy their needs based on their own choice. Systems of production and distribution would be managed by their participants.
-wikipedia.org
What I wonder is why the leader of Thanet's right wing party is promoting such a left wing ideal?
What is going on at Thanet Council?
Who is realy in control, if any one?
It seems that this could be a potentially cynical and depressive death rattle of a council ready to give up the ghost to a great power. Does anyone know if Kent Council are thinking of anexing the district council?
Is Thanet Council in danger of become a puppet to some one or some thing else?
Were we invaded and no one told us?
This is truely a scary place to be.